Hello dear readers. Today, the dish served is one of reflection, the bitter, and sweet impressions and thoughts of my GT presentation that occurred only a short while ago. These thoughts were compiled after an initial viewing of my recorded presentation, which has helped me in fully realising how... there exists large, gargantuan amounts of vacuous space that improvements can fill for presentations.
First off, it really is weird watching your own presentations, a surreal objective view of yourself recorded from a foreign eye, in jarring dissonance to the first person view that we are so used to conducting ourselves in. The third person view offers new insights into our conduct, and allows us effective scrutiny of even the smallest gestures that we don't pay attention to in our first person views. With that said however, the gestures we pick up in the videos may not be what we expect, and may be shocking. Certainly, my leaning/slouching posture was unexpected, and my hand gestures seemed restrained in my view. These observations have given rise to much distress, but better early realisation, than denial and stagnation.
My pitch variation was almost rhythmic, another startling realisation that means nothing but bad. It was no wonder then, that Brad found my presentation rehearsed, since it made any true injection of passion and emotion almost impossible, and I myself was inclined to feel that way.
All the critical stuff aside, I'd like to give a special shout-out to my group members for the GT presentation. Sarah, thank you for the beautiful slide formatting it was crucial in making my presentation effective. Annis and Hui Qi, the amount of effort you two put in is truly commendable, and it showed in the improvements to your presentations. The special Q&A session for our GT was a memorable experience, and I appreciate all of you for being such delightful GT mates.
Thanks for the insightful self-analysis, Zech.
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ReplyDeleteI guess I shouldn't wait for your classmates to comment before adding a bit more here. In any case, I find this post enlightening since you mention that you reflected after seeing the vid of yourself. That will do wonders for one's power of reflection. You obviously put the learning fro that review to good use as you prepared for and delivered your FOP. Your performance overall in the FOP was effective in terms of verbal and nonverbal elements. As you are well aware, it was only the content and organization that were problematic. We debriefed that in detail.
ReplyDeleteThe details in this post serve as a good example of how review can provide an impetus for continued development. Thank you for the effort, Zech
Hey Zech
ReplyDeleteGreat job on both the GT & FOP. and it was clear in the FOP that you have worked on the feedback given in the GT.
watching the videos of our own presentations definitely felt awkward, to say the least. but yes, it does help us in realising our flaws since we can see it 'directly'.